Attachment for vehicles.



PATENTED JUNE 26, 1906.

J. E. BLAKE. ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 16, 1905.

l/vbwaaseo ITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

JAMES E. BLAKE, OF CORNELL, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO N..M. SOUTHWIOK, OF STREATOR, ILLINOIS.

ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLES.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented June 26, 1906.

Application {119.1 November 16, 1905. Serial. No. 287,737.

tener for usejin connection with the sideboards of vehicle-bodies. The object of the invention is to rovide a cleat which will hold the side-boar securely in lace and which has adjustable means for 100 ing said board, so as to prevent it from becoming displaced.

The invention consists of a T-shaped stri which is secured to the side-board and whic projects and is adapted to slide between guides vwhich are connected to the vehiclebody. A cam is adjustably connected to the strip and is adapted to engage an ear extending from the guide, so as to securely lock the strip within the guides and prevent the same from rattling.

The invention also consists of certain other novel features of construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in'the claims.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown the preferred form of my invention.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a wagon having my improved attachment thereon. Fig. 2 is a perspective view.

of the attachment; and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section therethrough, showing in dotted lines the position of the eccentric when disengaged from the 'ear of the guide. V

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, 1 is aplate having a longitudinallyextending slot 2 therein, the sides of which are bent inward to form guide-flanges 3. A lug 4 is disposedadj acent one end of the plate 1, and this lug is ada ted to be engaged by an eccentric 5, forme by one end of the lever 6, said eccentric bein mounted on a pin 7, which connects threa ed bolts 8. These bolts extend to opposite sides of the eccentric and the ear 4, and their threaded ends engage lugs 9, which are fastened to opposite sides of a T-shaped strip 10, which strip is thereon provided with retainingadapted to be fastened to the side-board of a wagon and to project therebelow.

The side-board 11 may be provided with any number of these strips 10, and one plate 1 is utilized in connection with each strip 10.

These plates have lugs 12 for the rece tion of fastening means whereby they may e secured to 'a vehicle-body 13, and when it is desired to fasten aside-board in osition its strips 10'are inserted into the s ots in the plates 1 and into engagement with the flanges 3. Levers 6 are then swung inward, so that their cam ends will engage the ears 4 and draw the strips 10 tightly into the slot in plate 1, so as to hold it securely against rattling and against accidental displacement of the side-board. The distance between the ears 9 and the cam can be regulated by withdrawin the pin 7 and screwing the bolts in either irection within the lu s 9. In this way shrinkage or expansion of material can occur without rendering the attachment inoperative.

Havin thus fully described my invention, what I c aim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

1. The combination with a vehicle-body having a longitudinally-slotted guide-plate anges and an ear adjacent one end of the plate; of a side-b0ard, a T-shaped strip secured thereto and extending into and detachably mounted within the slotted plate, bolts adjustably connected and pivoted to the stri and a camlever mounted between the b0 ts and adapted to engage the ear.

2. A combined cleat and lock for sideboards of vehicles comprising a longitudinally-slotted' guide-plate having retainingflanges and an ear, a T-shaped strip detachably andslidably mounted within the guidelate and adapted to be secured to a sideboard, lugs pivoted to the strip and extendin from opposite sides thereof, bolts adjustabIy connected to the lugs, and a cam-lever pivoted between'the bolts and adapted toengage the ear to lock the strip within the guide-plate.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses;

JAMES E. BLAKE.

, Witnesses:

H. W. LUKINs, LOUIS NATER. 

